Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/4]delayed allocation for ext3

[Badari Pulavarty]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 15:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Here is the updated patch from Badari for delayed allocation for ext3.
> > Delayed allocation defers block allocation from prepare-write time to
> > page writeout time. 
> 
> For data=writeback only, yes?

Yes.

> 
> > ...
> > --- linux-2.6.12/fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-delalloc	2005-07-14 23:15:34.866752480 -0700
> > +++ linux-2.6.12-ming/fs/ext3/inode.c	2005-07-14 23:15:34.889748984 -0700
> > @@ -1340,6 +1340,9 @@ static int ext3_prepare_write(struct fil
> >  	handle_t *handle;
> >  	int retries = 0;
> >  
> > +
> > +	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DELAYED_ALLOC))
> > +		return __nobh_prepare_write(page, from, to, ext3_get_block, 0);
> 
> Rather than performing this test on each ->prepare_write(), would it not be
> better to set up a new set of address_space_operations for this mode?
> 
> __nobh_prepare_write() seems like a poor choice of name?

You are correct. I was trying to minimize the changes to interfaces.
Once we get it working, I will do it as part of cleanups.

> 
> >  retry:
> >  	handle = ext3_journal_start(inode, needed_blocks);
> >  	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
> > @@ -1439,6 +1442,9 @@ static int ext3_writeback_commit_write(s
> >  	else
> >  		ret = generic_commit_write(file, page, from, to);
> >  
> > +	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DELAYED_ALLOC))
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> 
> Here too, perhaps.
> 
> > +		}
> > +	}
> >  	/*
> >  	 * The journal_load will have done any necessary log recovery,
> >  	 * so we can safely mount the rest of the filesystem now.
> > diff -puN fs/buffer.c~ext3-delalloc fs/buffer.c
> > --- linux-2.6.12/fs/buffer.c~ext3-delalloc	2005-07-14 23:15:34.875751112 -0700
> > +++ linux-2.6.12-ming/fs/buffer.c	2005-07-14 23:15:34.903746856 -0700
> > @@ -2337,8 +2337,8 @@ static void end_buffer_read_nobh(struct 
> >   * On entry, the page is fully not uptodate.
> >   * On exit the page is fully uptodate in the areas outside (from,to)
> >   */
> > -int nobh_prepare_write(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to,
> > -			get_block_t *get_block)
> > +int __nobh_prepare_write(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to,
> > +			get_block_t *get_block, int create)
> 
> Suggest you make this static and update the comment.
> 

Sure.

> >  {
> >  	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
> >  	const unsigned blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
> > @@ -2370,10 +2370,8 @@ int nobh_prepare_write(struct page *page
> >  		  block_start < PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
> >  		  block_in_page++, block_start += blocksize) {
> >  		unsigned block_end = block_start + blocksize;
> > -		int create;
> >  
> >  		map_bh.b_state = 0;
> > -		create = 1;
> >  		if (block_start >= to)
> >  			create = 0;
> >  		ret = get_block(inode, block_in_file + block_in_page,
> 
> What's going on here?  Seems that we'll call get_block() with `create=0'. 
> Is there any point in doing that?  For delayed allocation we shuld be able
> to skip get_block() altogether here and, err, delay it.

For delayed allocation, I need to delay the block allocation - but I
still need to do get_block(READ) and read the data from the block - if
the block already exists.

> 
> > +int nobh_prepare_write(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned
> > + 				get_block_t *get_block)
> > +{
> > +	return __nobh_prepare_write(page, from, to, get_block, 1);
> > +}
> > +
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(nobh_prepare_write);
> 
> Here you add nobh_dalloc_prepare_write() and remember to export it to
> modules this time ;)
> 

Will do.

Thanks,
Badari

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